On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:08 am, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:50:24PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > I have a feature request in to John to add statistics gathering on IPIs, > > since he's currently reworking the interrupt paths. > > I like this LAPIC change a lot. Actually I like APICs a lot. They may not > give you 'real' vectored hardware interrupts a la SPARC and PowerPC, but > at least it comes a bit closer. > > It would be nice to be doing APIC on uniprocessor systems a bit further > down the line, but that's for the wishlist -- the 8259s are not going away > just yet. I think all new systems going forward are going to have APICs though. HTT and multi core require APIC just like SMP does. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Thu Jun 23 2005 - 20:47:42 UTC
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